Op vrijdag 24-07-2009 om 12:33 uur [tijdzone -0700], schreef C.J.
Adams-Collier:
> On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 04:00 +0200, Jan Claeys wrote:
> > Last time I checked, Thunderbird didn't support that very well--while
> > that bloody incomplete non-working one that comes with Ubuntu by default
> > does. ;-)
>
> What, Evolution? Would you mind filing some bugs when you run into
> problems (if you haven't stopped using it)?
I'm using Evolution (as you could have seen in the e-mail headers of
course), but what I said is that _Thunderbird_ didn't work well with
MIME digests last time I checked. It was Anthony who described
Evolution as:
"I know that the OS Install comes with a mail client. But what
if your user wants a working one instead of some RTFM incomplete
or non-working pre-installed application?"
... and I was just referring to that trying to be humorous.
BTW: if there is anything that annoys me in Evolution, then it's how
threading & ordering & thread-related filtering works (or doesn't work)
in it, but you're right that I should write a detailed report about that
& file a bug if I want to get that fixed... :)
> > > If you are tired of RTFM keep in mind that in my
> > > knowledge (from '04) not a single person involved in Debian gets paid
> > > for his work on the distro,
>
> Well, some folks use Debian in their work, and would not have a job
> unless Debian worked smoothly... so, although they're not being paid
> *directly*, one could argue that they are in fact Debian shills.
Well, Microsoft employees won't have a job if MS Windows didn't work
"good enough" either, so what's the difference (except for the business
model & structure)? Actually, Microsoft pays employees to make sure
some third-party applications keep working well on new Windows-versions.
Because they benefit from it...
> > That's not true: some of them can work on Debian during their working
> > hours, so they get paid to work on Debian.
>
> I don't think they are being pad to *work on Debian* so much as being
> paid while they work on Debian ;)
Intel pays some Xorg & kernel devs (and not only to develop the intel
drivers), Google pays some of their devs to work on Python & other open
source projects, Redhat pays employees to work on Fedora, the kernel,
etc. etc., so why do you think no companies pay Debian developers to
work on Debian?
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Jan Claeys
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